Behind the scenes with Jessica Paré

Mar. 28, 2013

Jessica Paré as Megan Draper on AMC's Mad Men. / Ron Jaffe/AP

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Gayle Jo Carter

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"It’s always stuff I want to keep,” says Jessica Paré, 30, of the mod fashions she wears as Megan Draper on AMC’s Mad Men. (The new season starts April 7.) “But it’s all vintage and very carefully protected.”

Before Paré landed the role, the Montreal-born actress was “looking for something to pay the rent” and realized “I can’t do anything [but act],” she says. “I burst into tears.”

These days, she’s all smiles. Says Paré of co-star Jon Hamm: “He’s very warm and interested in the people around him, and he’s really quick and sharp and funny.”